Hypothesis: A significant % of people are simply addicted to thought-police work. It's like bureaucrat sadism a la Umbridge v. Harry Potter
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I'd suspect only few are truly sadistic. Most thought police seem like true believers. The clueless underbelly.
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they are still sadists imo though. They are just too self-unaware to recognize their source of pleasure as schadenfreude.
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that's fair. It's hard to correct someone without an emotional rush of "I'm superior to you"
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Sadism goes beyond feeling superior to preferring pain rather than (say) admiration or gratitude as submissive status display.
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